Folks:
Looked in the FAQ for this one, and I am pulling Russell's Mandrake 8.0
images just in case....
So I want to take the patch, and apply it against the 2.4.3 kernel in
Mandrake 8.0. I read through the instructions, and no where in there is a
mention of devfsd. Now I know RH 7.1 with the installer uses devfsd, and
this has been a non-stop source of grief (xfs works great, VMware is
unhappy and needs reconfiging every time, and several other things are now
broken).
What I want to do is, if devfsd is really required, then I do not want
to use it for the /dev directory. The last few weeks of using it for
/dev on my laptop confirms that devfsd breaks things, specifically
VMWare, though it munges up the CD burner stuff, and quite a bit else as
well (that worked perfectly pre-devfsd).
If I read the patch instructions correctly (assuming that they are not
ommitting anything) I do not need to set up devfsd. Is this correct? Is
devfsd a requirement to use xfs? If it is required, then I presume there
is a way to limit what it can/cannot handle (via the /etc/devfsd.conf
file) so that it doesn't munge up non-xfs stuff.
Thoughts/clues/advice welcome here. I want to use xfs, I just do not
want to use devfsd anymore (unless there is some method available to make
it look, act, and generally feel *exactly* like the non-devfsd, so that my
apps don't break).
Thanks!
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Joe Landman,
landman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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